Last night was a typical, boring Tuesday, with little earth-shattering news to drive TV viewers to cable news. It was also May sweeps, with the season finale of “NCIS: LA,” “America’s Got Talent” on NBC and “Dancing With the Stars” on ABC drawing an astonishing 39 million viewers between them at 9 PM.

Unfortunately for CNN, “Piers Morgan Tonight” was the apparent victim of the busy night, drawing only 39,000 viewers 25-54 at 9 PM. To say those ratings are anomalous would be something of an understatement. That is the lowest 9 PM weekday demo rating for CNN since at least 1997. While the ratings were an outlier, it was a fairly normal edition of “PMT,” with Morgan hosting. Guests included Jane Lynch and “The man with the golden voice” Ted Williams.

CNN is attempting to sell an obsolete paradigm to an American public that knows better — viewers on both side of the aisle have made it clear that they want their news and opinion delivered by personalities whose opinions are known to them. That’s why Fox has prospered, and why MSNBC has bettered CNN in the ratings — whatever you think of O’Reilly and Hannity on the right, and Maddow and Al Sharpton on the left, you know what their worldview is, and can chose accordingly.

What I don’t get is why Liberals don’t support their own propaganda stations? They blame conservatives for not watching them. It’s like the Chevy Volt situation. Rush Limbaugh is critical of the Volt. The Volt tanks in sales. The Green supporters blame Rush. I wonder why the Green Liberals don’t buy more Volts? It’s not like the Liberals are not rich. Based on sales alone, more than a few Liberal millionaires can buy them to bring up the sales numbers. We should blame the Liberals for not buying their own crap, but that would be too obvious.

I kind of like CNN the way it is. Their ratings are low because they are not over-pandering to either side of the political fence, thus neither side of the parisan crowd feels driven to watch them. Yes, they do have a liberal bent, but it’s not obnoxious like MSNBC, or FOX’s Conservative leanings.

PS. They do need to get rid of Piers Morgan. His show is especially dreadful.

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